Which country is ranked as the best for females in the G20?

[rootX]

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Canada+best+country+females/6780157/story.html

I am bit surprised to see following ranks:

1. Canada

2. Germany

3. Britain

4. Australia

5. France

6. United States

7. Japan

8. Italy

9. Argentina

10. South Korea

11. Brazil

12. Turkey

13. Russia

14. China

15. Mexico

16. South Africa

17. Indonesia

18. Saudi Arabia

19. India - Reuters

 

[Jack21222]

Which ones do you find surprising? Looks about right to me.

 

[AlephZero]

Hmm... it wouldn't be a news story in Vancouver, unless Canada came either first or last!

 

[rootX]

Which ones do you find surprising? Looks about right to me.

Few surprises:
- Religiously conservative country like SA is above India
- Canada is number 1
- Germany/France are not as better for women than Canada as I thought

 

[rootX]

Hmm... it wouldn't be a news story in Vancouver, unless Canada came either first or last!

I usually prefer to use Vancouver Sun since I love Vancouver so much!

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

- Germany/France are not as better for women than Canada as I thought

I suppose it depends on just how one measures. France may take a hit for banning burqas and allegedly reducing the freedoms of women or they may just as well get a boost from it for fighting the oppression of women.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

Here's the original source:
www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/special-coverage/g20women/
Here's a fact sheet of how the report was generated:
http://www.trust.org/documents/womens-rights/resources/G20Poll2012-methodologyandresults.pdf
Regarding the ranking:

Respondents were asked to rank the three best and three worst countries for women in seven different categories: workplace opportunities, access to resources, participation in politics, quality of health, freedom from violence, freedom from trafficking and slavery, and an “overall” category. Countries were ranked based on their scores in each category.

It goes into more detail as to why the rankings are the way they are. For example for Canada (the best) and India (the worse);

 

[256bits]

And the rating for men-country should not be that much different.

I do wonder why Canada received such a high score in the human trafficking item (11.71) (US 4.0 ) especially in light of the fact that the US recently gave Canada a nudge to do some updates on the issue. Although 19 would have been a perfect score.

This is from a few years and somewhat current:

A 2003 US report on human trafficking1 found little Canadian data and described Canada as lacking a national strategy on trafficking, making little effort to prosecute traffickers, giving victims no assistance or protection, and frequently deporting or charging them as criminals. The report therefore downgraded Canada from the (top) rating of a tier 1 country to one of the 75 tier 2 countries,1 which include Albania, Angola and Bangladesh. Until 2004, Canada focused its efforts mostly on prevention, with strict migration rules and by contributing to anti-trafficking funds in source countries.1

http://www.cmaj.ca/content/173/1/25.full

NGOs and government agencies do not agree on the assessment of the problem in Canada.

 

[TheShrike]

I'm curious; looking at the example of Canada, it is saying that "62% of university graduates are female" makes the country good for women. Presumably this is because it is more than half. This implies that only 38% of university graduates are male. Does this make the country bad for men?

 

[Ryan_m_b]

This implies that only 38% of university graduates are male. Does this make the country bad for men?

No because it's extremely unlikely that men are underrepresented because of oppressive laws or customs. The same can't be said for a low number of female graduates. If course though this statistic can't be taken in of itself but rather as a marker to be looked into.

 

[rootX]

Here's the original source:
www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/special-coverage/g20women/
Here's a fact sheet of how the report was generated:
http://www.trust.org/documents/womens-rights/resources/G20Poll2012-methodologyandresults.pdf
Regarding the ranking:

It goes into more detail as to why the rankings are the way they are. For example for Canada (the best) and India (the worse);

Something interesting I came across a day before I read the rankings:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/04/13/third-child-male-india-mothers.html
Ratio of 136 boys to 100 girls raises issue of selective abortion

It's funny how the worst G20 country women still suffer even when they are in the best G20 country for the women.